US10802132B2 - Position-sensing sensor and position-sensing system - Google Patents

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US10802132B2
US10802132B2 US16/328,545 US201716328545A US10802132B2 US 10802132 B2 US10802132 B2 US 10802132B2 US 201716328545 A US201716328545 A US 201716328545A US 10802132 B2 US10802132 B2 US 10802132B2
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  • WO 2013/017596 A1 describes a method for locating an RFID tag via at least one RFID reader, in which the RFID reader emits an interrogation signal that comprises a broadband signal.
  • the RFID tag varies its antenna impedance so as to modulate the interrogation signal with a code signal and reflects it as a reflection signal.
  • the RFID reader receives the reflection signal and produces the code signal and a scattered broadband signal therefrom.
  • the RFID reader determines a propagation time of the broadband signal.
  • the RFID reader determines the distance between the RFID reader and the RFID tag from a resulting propagation time difference.
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic illustration of a second embodiment of the position detection sensor of FIG. 1 .

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